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Halloween check in: “Big Bang Theory”

Posted on October 31, 2012November 9, 2012 by aussiemoose

Yes it’s Halloween folks and while I haven’t seen any spectres a-haunting, or witches a-cackling, or even a stray zombie a-shuffling, I did get the chance to watch The Big Bang Theory‘s marking of this spooky festival, “The Holographic Excitation”. All the cast members got a chance to strut their Continue Reading

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Check in: “The Walking Dead” / “The New Normal”

Posted on October 30, 2012November 1, 2012 by aussiemoose

  It might seem odd, even for an ecumenical pop culture-obsessed blogger like myself, to do a joint review of two completely disparate shows. But with both of these wildly different shows reaching the third episodes of their current seasons (for the The Walking Dead, it’s third and for The New Continue Reading

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Joss Whedon endorses Zomney for President

Posted on October 29, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Yes folks you read that right. Zomney. In a less than subtle dig at the economic and social policies of the Republicans’ anointed candidate for US President, pop culture maestro, Joss Whedon, who has given the world Firefly and The Avengers movie, has nominated Mitt Romney as the man Continue Reading

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Behind the scenes photos of “Warehouse 13”

Posted on October 28, 2012October 29, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Warehouse 13, which screens on the syfy channel in the USA, is a show that I have loved since the first episode. Not all shows, especially ones that had to grow into themselves like Stargate SG1 and Fringe, attract that sort of loyal following from me from the start, Continue Reading

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“Husbands” gets inked!

Posted on October 28, 2012October 26, 2012 by aussiemoose

  It’s Husbands Jim but not as we know it. Yes Cheeks and Brady, still married, still in love and still damn near hilarious, are back, but this time they’ve swapped their riotously colourful 3D world for the every bit as imaginative 2D world of the comics. In a series Continue Reading

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Fun with the “The Walking Dead”

Posted on October 27, 2012October 27, 2012 by aussiemoose

  Hilarity is not something you generally associate with The Walking Dead, a show better known for its grim apocalyptic drama. But the talented Mike at seemikedraw.com.au has found a way and behold, it is funny indeed! Who knows? Perhaps this will inspire even the Walkers to chortle a little? Continue Reading

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The stars of “Community” speak out!

Posted on October 26, 2012October 27, 2012 by aussiemoose

  As anyone whose familiar with this comedy gem will know, its home network in the USA, NBC, has played fast and loose with its airing dates, with fans never quite sure when, and sometimes, alarmingly, if the show, whose tagline is #sixseasonsandamovie on Twitter, would return. As I documented Continue Reading

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More “Miranda” this Christmas … such fun!

Posted on October 26, 2012October 25, 2012 by aussiemoose

  In news that shivers of delight down my spine … bear with … bear with … Tom Ellis, who plays on-again, off-again love interest Gary for the titular Miranda (Miranda Hart) has declared to the world via Twitter that the third series of the hilarious sitcom will see the Continue Reading

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First impressions: “666 Park Avenue”

Posted on October 25, 2012October 25, 2012 by aussiemoose

  666 Park Avenue is one seriously creepy show. And I mean that in a good way. The supernaturally-inclined drama, which is produced by David Wilcox (and loosely based on a novel of the same name by Gabriella Pierce; I am tempted to read them just to see how “loosely”) Continue Reading

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“The Looney Tunes Show”

Posted on October 20, 2012October 20, 2012 by aussiemoose

It is almost always a risky proposition dragging out a show from the pop culture vaults and trying to translate it into a concept that will work for modern audiences. For a start, while the show may live on in syndication on say Nick at Nite (ALF, Mork and Mindy, Continue Reading

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    (courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Despite living in it all the time, humanity is, by and large, not all that good with dealing with the reality. So averse are we to its omnipresence and the way in which it very rarely squares with our fairytale glossy hopes and dreams that we Continue Reading
  • An epic love story: Join the Fellow Travelers (teaser trailer)
    (courtesy YouTube (c) Showtime / paramount+) SNAPSHOTCreated by Oscar nominee Ron Nyswaner, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers is an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington. Matt Bomer plays handsome, charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains Continue Reading
  • Book review: Crushing by Genevieve Novak
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Whether we’re conscious of it or not, we often tend to define ourselves in terms of our connection to others. In an ideal world, we would be who we are consistently and without change from one situation to another or one person to another, but a combination Continue Reading
  • Back with all their faculties intact: Thoughts on Abbott Elementary season two
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Work is a strange thing. Pretty much all of us do it, compelled by a valid need for food, water, shelter and the occasional (or more; thank you eBay) unnecessary shiny thing or fabulous dinner out, to get out there each day and put in eight or Continue Reading
  • Retro movie review: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
    (courtesy The Movie Database) Diving back into a film you haven’t seen for 42 years can be an interesting and yes, let’s be honest, fraught experience. Will it be as good as you remember? Is it still an escapist wonderland or schlocky ’80s pulp? And does it hold up as Continue Reading
  • Book review: Charles M. Schulz – The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects by Benjamin L. Clark, Nat Gertler and the Charles M. Schulz Museum
    (courtesy Simon & Schuster) When you have loved Peanuts as long as this review has, it’s all too easy to assume you know everything about the comic strip and its creator, the legendarily talented Charles M. Schulz. But even though I started buying secondhand copies for twenty and thirty cents Continue Reading
  • “So long, Farewell” Ted Lasso: We will always “Believe” (review of S3, E11 & E12 aka finale)
    (courtesy AppleTV+) Falling in love with a TV show is rarer than you might think. Oh, sure, media, both traditional and digital, gushingly make out like we’re traipsing in and out of streaming true love every second day, and while that’s feasibly possible given the plethora of programming options out Continue Reading
  • Weekday character poster movie character art: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA fifth movie in the Indiana Jones franchise, continuing the story after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Starring Harrison Ford as adventurer Indiana Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena. The full cast also features Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Continue Reading
  • Book review: Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes
    (courtesy Harper Collins Booksellers Australia) There’s always been a lot to like about the gloriously flawed but found family-prioritising protagonists at the heart of the Chilling Effect series of playfully intense novels by Valerie Valdes but chief among them must surely be the fact the fact that here are saviours-of-the-day Continue Reading
  • A meet-cute snippet of Elemental … and some fun international character posters too
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common. [Elemental] features the voice talents of Leah Lewis as Ember; Mamoudou Athie as Wade; Continue Reading
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